The Directorate-General of Antiquities, Lebanon, has said that it plans to resume excavation at the Freres archaeological site in the old city of Sidon in collaboration with a delegation of...

In a new study, a scientist is analyzing how humans came to develop clothing, and how that innovation might have in turn given our species an evolutionary edge over other...

The earliest suggestion of something worth uncovering on thias plateau above the Huron River (Ohio, USA) were some dark electronic smudges on a piece of graph paper. The smudges piqued...

A team of U.S. scientists that has unearthed a layer of microscopic diamonds on a California island (USA) is calling the find a possible 'smoking gun' to prove a controversial...

Thirty-five thousand years ago, a diminutive innovation transformed India. The advent of stone microblades set the stage for the subcontinent's explosive population growth, new research suggests. The easy-to-manufacture tools -...

The wound that ultimately killed a Neanderthal man between 50,000 and 75,000 years was most likely caused by a thrown spear, the kind modern humans used but Neanderthals did not,...

Researchers from the University of Missouri have found evidence of a grand scale party by ancient humans 4,000 years ago, in the form of remnants that still remain in the...

Archaeologists have spent 12 years researching the 8,000 year old 'Starcevacka Kultura' (Starcevacka Culture) from the Neolithic. This is the first time that remains have been found above ground. "This...

Archaeologists in Cyprus found evidence that inhabitants of the Mediterranean island may have abandoned a nomadic lifestyle for agriculture-based settlements earlier than previously believed. The excavations at the Politiko-Troullia site,...

Next Saturday 23rd January 2010, a one-day course simply titled 'Stonehenge' will be held at the University of Oxford (England). Through the presentations to this dayschool you will get behind...

DNA evidence linking Indian tribes to Australian Aboriginal people supports the theory humans arrived in Australia from Africa via a southern coastal route through India, say researchers. The research, lead...

Archaeologists have uncovered remarkable evidence that stone age man lived in the centre of Birmingham (England) more than 10,000 years ago. The settlers used basic flint knives to hunt and...

A team from Academia Sinica has recently discovered a Neolithic stone hearth in a cave in Taitung County that has been confirmed as the earliest human relic to have been...

Millions of students will graduate in China this year but with up to a third unable to get a job the number of suicides is soaring.

Unable to find a job and consumed with guilt about her parents' financial sacrifices Chinese student Liu Wei took her own life. Her diary charts a voyage from hope to despair.

Pupils can pass the Government's flagship diploma qualification in engineering even if they score zero in the exam which tests their engineering knowledge.

The House of Representatives playing the ombudsman role yesterday failed to secure a deal between the Federal ministry of education and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to get the striking lecturers back to the classrooms.

The Federal Ministry of Education achieved 61.77 per cent capital budget implementation in 2008 and has so far recorded 66.39 per cent in the first and second quarters of this year.

Computer Engineer, Educator and Recipient of 11 Technology Patents Is Interviewed by Guest Host Kevin McDonald on Eye on Entertainment Television Show Directed by John Cox (PRWeb Jul 26, 2009) Read the full story at

It was a Friday and we were in the sixth month of our strike. Our salaries had been stopped and letters purportedly dismissing us from our jobs had been handed to all striking university lecturers. Prof. Assisi Asobie and I